Plastic pallet recycling in Reno: ZIPs, industries and the loads they leave behind

Reno in the numbers

With 12,269 private warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, Reno stands 33rd of 60 metros in our data, 0.65% of the country. Only counties with disclosed figures are counted, so the true number is a little higher.

It spans 3 counties: Lyon, Storey and Washoe. Warehousing is 5.0% of private jobs there, and the metro holds 29.1% of Nevada's 42,113 warehousing jobs. 5 ZIP codes stand out for sites, led by 89506 (Reno, 22).

County by county

The largest warehousing counties in the metro: Washoe (9,662) and Storey (2,607).

• Washoe County9,662 jobs, 78.8% of the metro's disclosed total.
• Storey County2,607 jobs, 21.2% of the metro's disclosed total.

The industries behind the loads

2 industries are named for the Reno metro. The most concentrated is warehousing and storage, at 3.5 times the national share of employment.

• Warehousing and storage12,269 jobs in 2025, 0.65% of the US total. General-purpose 48 x 40 pallets, nestables for empty storage and rackables on beams. Warehouses hold the widest mix of styles of any industry here, so mixed resin and mixed colour piles are normal. Check the strays first. Then separate the rackables, which are usually PP, from the nestables, which are usually HDPE. Describe each stack as its own line. In a pile from here, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side.
• Food manufacturing2,659 jobs in 2025, 0.15% of the US total. Hygienic 48 x 40 and 40 x 48 pallets in HDPE or PP, often with closed decks and colour-coding by zone. Some are listed as food safe but not approved for direct food contact. In a pile from here, photograph the deck surface and any staining.

On the freight lanes: I-80

Reno sits on I-80, which runs from I-80 is 2,900 miles long, from San Francisco, California, to I-95 at Teaneck, New Jersey, through California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The metros we track on it hold 155,780 private warehousing jobs, 8.2% of the US total (disclosed counties only). Also on it: San Francisco (9,473), Chicago (59,586), Northern New Jersey (39,367), Scranton (18,912), Salt Lake City (6,623), Omaha (5,157) and Des Moines (4,393).

Metros of a similar size

By warehousing jobs the nearest metros are Tampa (13,205), Cleveland (13,652) and Orlando (13,928).

Elsewhere in Nevada

Las Vegas (28,250 jobs, 2.30 times Reno, busiest ZIP 89115) is the other metro we cover in Nevada, which has 42,113 warehousing jobs in all.

What the size of the market means

A mid-sized warehouse market. Loads around Reno tend to come from a handful of big sites and a long tail of small ones, and a full trailer from one site is a different job from three part-loads from three. Say which yours is.

What a Reno load looks like

Expect warehousing and storage first: 12,269 jobs in 2025. Photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side and, for food manufacturing, the deck surface and any staining. Say the ZIP, the count and the footprint. Any Reno pallet with a name, tag or odd colour waits for an owner check.